Lot 86
  • 86

Marie Laurencin

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Marie Laurencin
  • Nature morte au tableautin
  • Signed Marie Laurencin and dated 1939 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 10 1/2 by 13 3/4 in.
  • 26.7 by 34.9 cm.
  • Painted in 1939.

Provenance

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Josias Carneiro Leo, Rio de Janeiro

Literature

Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, 1883-1956, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 1986, no. 727, illustrated p. 301

Condition

Oil on unlined canvas. There is a pinprick puncture to the canvas evident in the far right of the woman at right's pink shawl. The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from some areas of craquelure in the more heavily painted white areas. Under UV: there are no apparent signs of inpainting.
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